Everybody's born knowing all the Beatles lyrics instinctively.

They're passed into the fetus subconsciously along with all the amniotic stuff. Fact, they should be called "The Fetals". -Sliding Doors (1998)

Apparently the last great frontier of digital music is The Beatles.

"The Beatles are really the holy grail for digital music, said Aram Sinnreich, a professor at New York University's department of media culture and communications and managing partner of Radar Research LLC, a media consulting firm. "They have not been available legally from any digital music service to date. Once they are, I think it confers the sense that digital music has finally arrived in the mainstream."

Sure, I'll agree with that. This pronouncement, not so much:

"There's no question that there is a massive demand for the Beatles through a digital channel," Sinnreich said, "not only from baby boomers, who would replace the CDs they used to replace their LPs, but also from today's college students, who demonstrate continued interest in the band despite the fact that it's their grandparents' music."

The first thing is how absurd it would be to replace your CDs with digital downloads: 1. It's expensive, 2. CDs are higher quality/bitrate, 3. Apple makes it insanely easy to copy the CDs you have if you only stick them in the CD drive and hit a button.

The second thing, I wonder if they'll restrict certain groupings of songs to album only purchases. Like the first two songs of Sgt. Pepper, or the last half of Abbey Road. Time will tell, but as you might guess, I won't be buying my Beatles digitally.

Paul McCartney seems resigned to the idea of digital music though. When interviewed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic:

To me, it doesn't really matter, it's however people want to take the music--to me it's the music that matters. You know, it's probably better if they listen to the vinyl, but how many people are going to do that these days? It's kind of inconvenient. It probably is the best sound, if you're going to be a hi-fi nut. That's actually probably the best way to do it. I don't care though, however people want to do it.

You can listen to the whole live show and interview here, it's well worth it.

Baby, did you forget to take your meds?

I listen to music on my iPod on the Metro to work, at work, and on the Metro home again. Usually this amounts to 125 songs a day. Here are the top ten song lyrics that arrested my attention from whatever I happened to being doing at that moment today (in the order I heard them) with artist, song title, and lyric sample:
-Placebo, Meds, 'Baby, did you forget to take you meds?'
-Doors, Break On Through, 'You know the day destroys the night; Night divides the day; Tried to run; Tried to hide; Break on through to the other side'
-Simon And Garfunkel, Baby Driver, 'My daddy was the family bassman; My mamma was an engineer'
-The Shins, Turn On Me, 'So affections fade away, and do adults just learn to play, the most ridiculous, repulsive games? On the faith of ruddy sons, and the double-barreled guns,you better hurry, rabbit, run, run, run.'
-Moondance, Michael Buble, 'And all the nights magic seems to whisper and hush; And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush'
-Brandi Carlile, Closer To You, 'Someday we might learn to tell the truth; We might even find the fountains of our youth'
-They Might Be Giants, Whistling In The Dark, 'Theres only one thing that I know how to do well; And Ive often been told that you only can do; What you know how to do well; And thats be you, Be what youre like, Be like yourself'
-Snow Patrol, Open Your Eyes, 'Get up, get out, get away from these liars; Cause they don't get your soul or your fire'
-Foreigner, Blue Morning Blue Day, 'Blue morning, blue day, won't you see things my way?'
-Bare Naked Ladies, If I Had $1,000,000, 'If I had $1000000 we wouldnt have to eat kraft dinner, but we would!'